According to multiple reports, a bill was proposed last week to the Virginia House of Delegates titled "Sage's Law," named after an Appomattox County teenager who was a victim of sex trafficking.
The bill (HB 2432 Minors & students self-identifying as a gender different from biological sex; parental notification) requires school personnel to inform a student's parents if that student self-identifies as the opposite gender from which they were born.
Partial wording in the bill states that it "Requires any person licensed as administrative or instructional personnel by the Board of Education and employed by a local school board who, in the scope of his employment, has reason to believe, as a result of direct communication from a student, that such student is self-identifying as a gender different from the student's biological sex to contact as soon as practicable at least one of such student's parents to ask whether such parent is aware of the student's mental state and whether the parent wishes to obtain or has already obtained counseling for such student."
The teenager, whose first name is Sage, attended Appomattox County High School in 2021, and at the time identified as a male instead of her birth gender, female. Reports state that her parents were not notified of that information while the school cooperated with Sage in regard to the matter.
Reports also stated that Sage was afterward a victim of sex trafficking in two different states.
The Times Virginian attempted to contact several authorities at Appomattox County High School and the school district's administration office today but have not received a response as of this report.
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